[LatteLazy]

I'm always amazed how little people know about how companies operate. Amazon does the same thing as many many companies and is treated as news. People are shocked that they are profit seeking, that they do barely legal but legal things, that they don't actively knowingly pay their workers more than they have to etc.

[christophilus]

Yeah. My brother worked at a Husqvarna warehouse for a few months. It was the most depressed I’ve ever seen him.

I’ve chatted with my dad about Amazon working conditions, and he retorted with tales of his own days in un-conditioned factories and warehouses in Oklahoma in the 1980s.

There are a lot of crappy jobs out there. Those of us who have found enjoyment and balance are fortunate.

[SrslyJosh]

> The rate of serious injuries at Amazon warehouses in the United States is more than twice as high as those at other, non-Amazon warehouses, according to a new study that examines injury data supplied to the federal agency that oversees workplace safety.

> Amazon employed 33% of all US warehouse workers in 2021, but was responsible for 49% of all injuries in the industry, according to a report published Tuesday by the Strategic Organizing Center (SOC), a coalition of four labor unions.

(Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/tech/amazon-injury-data-study...)

No, they are not "the same", they are worse. They are at the absolute fucking forefront of treating their workers badly. You don't hear about postal workers having to piss in bottles and shit in plastic bags to make their deliveries. You don't hear about warehouse workers at other companies having their bathroom breaks timed, probably because damn near no other company's leadership is sociopathic enough to build an automated system to time fucking bathroom breaks.

[ignoramous]

> Amazon does the same thing as many many companies and is treated as news.

Yes, and that's because of its scale and size.